Police Blotter - Crime wrap July 20,2000 07/20/00

Published: Thursday, July 20, 2000

Blotter information is compiled from reports filed with the Lubbock Police Department. To report information about these or any other crimes, call Crime Line at 741-1000. In some cases, cash rewards are offered. Callers may remain anonymous.

ASSAULT

2700 block of Drive of Champions

A man was assaulted when his girlfriend got angry because he admitted to sleeping with his wife.

The victim, a 45-year-old married maintenance supervisor, said one of his employees, with whom he was having a relationship, asked him if he was seeing or sleeping with another woman. The victim said he slept with his wife. The woman became angry and began hitting the man and scratching his face. The victim said he had pushed the woman to the ground to stop her from hitting him, but she got up and threw a Coke can at him.

The suspect then said that if she could not have him, "nobody" could. The woman said she would kill him, then kill herself.

The man said he did not want to file charges.

INJURY TO A CHILD

100 block of Waco Avenue

Two children were beaten with coat hangers for talking through a window Saturday.

A woman contacted police Tuesday after the father of her two children whipped them with plastic coat hangers during their visit to his house Saturday.

The two victims told police that their father had left them at home with a baby sitter. The baby sitter then left them at the house alone. When their father returned, he found them talking to a friend through the window, which he did not allow, and became very angry. He took each child to bedroom and hit them with the coat hanger several times, the children told police.

One of the children contacted their mother after the incident occurred to tell her that she wanted to come home. The mother spoke with the father, and he brought the children to her house. There she observed bruises on each child's buttocks. Round bruises and line-shaped bruises, consistent with a coat hanger shape, were observed and photographed by police officers.

No arrests were made.

BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE

4000 block of Frankford Avenue

Two Southwestern Bell work vehicles were broken into between 5 p.m. July 13 and 7:30 a.m. July 14 and about $3,615 worth of assorted tools were stolen.

1800 block of Buddy Holly Ave.

About $1,790 worth of property was stolen from a 1994 white Honda Civic since 2 a.m. Wednesday.

THEFT

2100 block of 14th Street

Four chrome wheels, valued at $1,500, were stolen off of a 1977 Cadillac DeVille since midnight July 14.

8300 block of Elgin Avenue

Jewelry, valued at $4,085, was stolen from a party between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday. A 14-karat gold band with a garnet and diamonds, a gold band with a garnet setting and a sterling silver band with Austrian crystal were reported missing.